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ADMINISTRATION OF A NEW ERA 



■HESIDKXT IIARDIXCS IXAft.l HAL ADDHKS.S. with a liRll 

ACCOrXT of the PAST CARKKHS „,„/ ( HARA( TKRISTICS 

-;/ THE PRESIDEXT. VICE- I'RESIDEXT, and THE 

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FORKUOUJ) 

The a,l III hi 1st rati,,,, of iVcrni (.. Ilanliii,/. the twentji-nhith Pirsi- 
ilriil „f the L'liitcil States, marks the heijinninij of a Xeir Era. At the 
einl of the U'orlil IVar. Europe faeed a erisis irhirh .'<till meiiaee.s- her 
e.,-ha,i.--lal awl .--hatfere,! iiatn,,,.^. .Imerira .•'ton,! aloof from the eii- 
t,iN,ili„,i alliaiu-es of the W'r.^oille.^ l',„re. ft h,i,l rca.sri/ to trii.si the 
partii ,',-hi,'h ,iiii,le,l' it ,l,iriin/ the Worhl War. a,„l h„,l ,;,me to re,ia,;l 
,„a,i!i ,f Its ',i-ar-ti„,e l,-a,lers leith ii,, ,-onti,leii,-e. ,f not „,i„al ,li.-.tni.si. 

r infer these eireiiiii.^l,in,-es Our ( 'loiiitri/ tiiriieil to the paiiii irhleh. ,liir- 
iiiij a Ion,/ historii ,f prosperiti/ an, I pheii„,nei,al ,iro,rth. i/iiideil it 
s,'„re.'<.'<fiili,i throiujh a ,;,urse often fraai/ht irith dire pei-il. With an 
el,;-toral iiiajoriti/ nil preeedented in its hi-'itori/ the United States plaeal 
]\'arren (,. Hardin;! and his parti/ in e,,ntrol of the Xation. 

One ,if the fir.-.-! .■<teps of the neie President leas to seleet as the ineinhers 
,,f his (iihinii tho.-^i in lehoiii the Coiintr,/ ,-oi,ld pUiee the ntnuist 
trn.^l. The hope iehi,-h thei/ arons;;l and the ,ei.'<e l,;idership of Pr.si- 
deiit Hardin,, i/are the iialion neie assnrani'e that a propilions Inrn in 
atfairs h,nl o,-enrr.d. 

The ,idinini.<tratnni had not hirn in offire sl.v months Infore the Presi- 
dent ,;ill,;l a IH.-armainenf Conferen.-e to di.^en.-<s plans for the pe,„r of 
the irorld. I 'nder the l,,ider.diip ,f PnsidenI Hardin,/ and Saretari) ,f '- - 

State Mr. H lOilies. ,/n,'stioiis ir,r,' raiseil an, I irorld policies laid doirn at \ J\ 

that ( ■onfe,-enee iehi,-li leill ,to mn,-h to l,:-<.-<en the likelihood of war um,m,j ' "T 

the fire ,/r,;it nations of the irorld. .\s the iliiirt nsiilt of this ( onferenee. 
.[meri,-a ai/ain a.^sinn,;! the world l,;ider.dii p. lehieh she had h.st at the 
.-lose o( th,' World War. 

Ei;on th,' Conferenee has ,;,iiie a s-eries of treatiis. whieli. whaterer 
mail he tin- oiit,-oiiie. has at l,'a.-<t ai;iii.'<ed the ,;,mmoii ,;iiis,-ien,-e ,if tlie 
leiwld to ,1 nali-,iti,in that /ire/mration for irar throni/h iiier,;i.'<ed arma- 
ment is the surest leai, to hrin,/ ahoiit war. If the ad ininistrafion ,f Mr. 
Hanliii,/ a,, -oiii /dishes nothiii,/ nnnr than a redii,-tioii ,f arinamrnts. it 
will h, lie, lone miwhforthe world. 

The return ,,f the Republican /larti/ to /loieer. therefire. triili/ marks 
the wlmini.strati,,n ,f a Sew Era. .Is siiidi. the /lersonnil of the ( idiim-t 
h,;;,mes interesliini.' j ; 

What manner ,,f men are these lein, a,r .sv. anspii-ioie-li/ ,-on,l iiiiin,/ , I 

affair.^- what do thei/ look lik,- what hare the// don,- -it is the pnr/,o.se 
of this little lii-oehnre to t,:ll. So /niins hare twen spared to make it 
attra,-lire and a,;-iir,ite. We h,,/,e i/.m irill tin, I it leorthi/ ,,f pre.-<err,itioii 
in !/onr lihrari, as a kin, I ,f miniature "Wlnrs Uli,,- in the .\ew A,l- 
mini.'^tration. We are. ther,f,„;: takiinj the lihert,/ of pre.-<entiii,i it to 
j/oii with our ,-om /ill iiients. 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 



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I'irturr nf Ihc rrrsi,l,;it (IihI Calnitrt 

PoHICWOIII) - 

Inauclhal Aduress oi- Tresidext Wakhe.n G. IIahdinc 
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1 HE I'HESIDENT 

Pirfiire of llic I'n.sklnit 



; \'irE-l'l!KtSlDENT 

PirturrofihcVux-rn 



C'liAHi.Es EvAX.s Hughes, Secretakv of State 
I'idiirc (if the Secretary nf State 

AvDitEW W. Mei.i.dn. Sf.< retarv ()i Theasir^ 
I'ictiin of the Serretarii of Treasiirii 

Hahkv M. l>Ai(aiERTV, Attorxev-Generai, . 

I'ietiire of the Attonteii-Ceiieral 



Eduix Denuy, Secretarv (IK Xavv 

I'ieture of the Seerelari/ of Xarii 

Hexry Caxtweli. AVaei.ace. Secretary of Agrkultxre 

Picture (f the Sccrctari/ of Aijriculture 

James John Davis. Secretary of Lahor 

Picture of the Secretary of Labor 



Hehuert Hoover. Secretary of Commerce . 
Picture of the Secretary of Commerce . . . . 



Hubert Work, Postmaster-General 41 

Picture (f the Po.ttina.tter-Oeueral +-.' 

John \Vi\gate AVeeks. Secretary of War 44 

Picture of the Secretarii of War 4.) 

Albert Baccjx Fall. Secretary of the Interior 

I'icture of the Secretarii of the Interior 




IN AUG URAL ADD 1{ ESS 



PRESIDENT WARREN C HARDING 

Mjj CointtrijiiH'ii: — 

When one snr\ey.s tlie world ahout him after the great storni. 
noting the marks of destruction and yet rejoicing in the ruggedness 
of the things which withstood it, if he is an American he breathes 
the clarified atmosjjhere with a strange mingling of regret and new 
lioi)e. We have seen a world ])assion spend its fury, but we contem- 
plate our Republic unshaken, and hold our civihzation secure. Lib- 
erty — liberty within the law — and civilization are inseparable, and 
though both were threatened we find them now secure; and there 
comes to Americans the profound assurance that our representative 
goNcrnmcnt is the highest expression and surest guaranty of both. 

Standing in this presence, mindful of the solemnity of this occasion, 
feeling the emotions which no one may know until he senses the great 
weight of responsibility for himself, I nnist utter my belief in the 
divine inspiration of the founding fathers. Surely there must have ^;., 

been God's intent in the making of this New World rei)ublic. Ours lii^' 

is an organic law which had but one ambiguity, and we saw that '^^^ 

etlaced in a baptism of sacrifice and blood, with union maintained, " "^ 

the Nation supreme, and its concord ins|)iring. We have seen the 
world rivet its ho]jeful gaze on the great truths on which the founders 
wrought. We have seen civil, Jiuman, and religious liberty verified |.h^^ 

and glorified. In the beginning tlie Old World scort'ed at our experi- ll^ 

nient; to-day our foundations of ])olitical and social belief stand N^ 

unshaken, a precious inheritance to ourselves, an inspiring example ^t^' 

of freedom and civilization to all mankind. Let us express renewed v!^ 

and strengthened devotion, in grateful reverence for the immortal \^^^ 

beginning, and utter our confidence in the supreme fulfilment. '\P]^^- 

The recorded progress of our Republic, materially and spiritually, \ -t^ 

ill itself i)rovcs the wisdnin of the inherited |)olicy of non-involvement ': : 

in Ol<l World all'aiis. Confident of our ability to work out our own 
destiny, ami jealously guarding our right to do so, we seek no part 
ill directing the destinies of the Old World. We do not mean to be H^i^l 

entangled. We will accept no responsibility except as our own con- hWI] 

science and judgment, in each instance, may determine. j \^^' 

Our eyes never will be blind to a developing menace, our ears never Jfe^ 

deaf to the call of civilization. We recognize the new order in the 
world, with the closer contacts which progress has wrought. We 
sense the call of the human heart for fellowship, fraternity, and co- 
operation. We crave friendshi]) and harbor no hate. But America, 
our America, the America builded on the foundation laid by the in- 
spired fathers, can be a |)arty to no permanent military alliance. It 
can enter into no ))olitical commitments, nor assume any economic 
obligations which will subject our decisions to any other than our 
own authority. 



I X A r (i r R A 1, ADD I{ K S S 

I am Miiv ..ur own popk' will nut niisiin.lcMNtan.l. nur will ll,c w.,rl.l 
niisconstnio. We have no thought to inipeile tlie jjatlis to clo-er 
relationship. We wish to promote luulerstaniling. We waul lo do 
our i)art in making offensive warfare so hateful that governniciil> ami 
peoples who resort to it must prove the righteousness of liicir cause 
or stand as outlaws before the bar of ei\ili/.ation. 

We are ready to associate ourselves with the nations of the world, 
great and small, for conference, for couu-cl; to seek the expressed 
views of world 0])inion; to recommend a w a>- to approximate disarma- 
ment and relieve the crushing burdens of military and na\al eslalili-li- 
mcnts. We elect to particijiate in suggesting jilans for mediation, 
conciliation, and arbitration, and would gladly join in that expresseil 
conscience of jjrogress, which seeks to clarify and write the laws of 
international relationshi|), and establish a world court for the dis- 
position of such justiciable questions as nations are agreed to submil 
thereto. In e.\j)ressing aspirations, in seeking practical i>lans, in 
translating humanity's new concept of righteousness and justice and 
its hatred of war into recommended action we are ready most heartily 
to unite, but every commitment must be made in the exercise of our 
national sovereignty. Since freedom inii)elkHl, and independence 
inspired, and nationality exalted, a world supergoxernment is contiaiy 
to everything we cheri.sh and can have no sanction I)y our Republic. 
This is not selfishness, it is sanclity. It is not aloofness, it is security. 
It is not sus])icion of others, it is ])atriolic adherence to the things 
which made us what we are. 

To-day, better than ever before, we know the aspirations of lnnnan- 
kind, and share them. We hav<- come to a new realization of <ini- 
place in the world and a new ajjpraisal of our Nation by the wdrld 
The unselfishness of these United States is a thing proven; our de- 
votion to peace for ourselves and for the world is well establisli<'d; 
our concern for preserved civilization has had its impassioned and 
heroic expression. There was no American failure to resist the at- 
tempted reversion of civilization: there will be no f.iilnrc to-day or 
to-morrow. 

The success of our jjopular government rests w holly upon the correct 
interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, de|)endable popular will 
of America. In a deliberate ciuestioning of a suggested change of 
national policy, where internationality was to supersede nationality, 
we turned to a referendum, to the .Vnicrican peo])le. There was 
ample discu.ssion, and there is a public mandate in manifest under- 
standing. 

America is ready to encourage, eager to initiate, anxious to partici- 
pate in any .seemly programme likely to lessen the probability of war. 
and promote that brotherhood of mankind which nnist be (iod's 
highest conception of human relationship. Because we cherish ideals 
of justice and i)eace, because we appraise international comity and 
hel])ful relationship no less highly than any ])eo|)le of the world, wc 
as|)ire to a high place in the moral leadershi]) of civilization, and wc 
hold a maintained America, the jiroven Rc|)ublic, the uush.-ikcn 
temple of representative democracy, to be not only an ins|)iralion and 

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I X A I (; I U A 1. A I) 1) H K S S 

.•xaiuplc, l.ul tlu- lii-hcst a.m-Mcy of >tivnotlKMiiii- -"'"l-will aii.l |)ri.- 
iiiotinii accord on hoth contiiuMits. 

Mankind needs a world-wide l>enedictioii of understanding. It is 
needed ainoni; individuals, among peoples, among governments, and 
it will inaugurate an era of good-feeling to mark the hirth of a new 
iirdcr. In such understanding men will strive confidently for the 
promotion of their better relationshijjs and nations will promote the 

intimacy, and none may receive except as he gives. We have not 
strengthened ours in accordance with our resources or our genius, 
notahlv on our own continent, where a galaxy of republics reflect the 
glory of New Worl.l democracy, l.ut in the new order of Hnanre and 
trade we mean lo promote enlarged activities and seek expanded 
confidence. 

Pcrliai)s we can make no more helpful c(mtriliutiou hy example 
than prove a republic's capacity to emerge from the wreckage of war. 
While I he world's embittered travail did not leave us devastated 
Jan(K nor dc-olalcil cities, left no gajjing wounds, no breast with hate, 
it did invuKf u- in the delirium of exi)enditure, in expanded currency 
and credits, in unbalanced industry, in unspeakable waste and dis- 
turbed relationshijjs. While it uncovered our portion of hateful 
selfishness at home, it also revealed the heart of America as sound and 
fearless, and beating in confidence unfailing. 

Amid it all we have riveted the gaze of all civilization to the unsel- 
tishness and the righteousness of rei)resentative democracy, where 
oiu- freedom never has made offensive warfare, never has sought 
territorial aggrandizement through force, never has turned to the 
arbitrament of arms until ri'ason has been exhausted. When the 
governments of the earth -hall have established a freedom like our 
own and shall have vin.t i.mcd the pnr-uit of peace as we have prac- 
tised it, I believe the last sorrow and the final sacrifice of international 
warfare will have been written. 

Let me speak to the maimed and \\oun<led soldiers who are |)resent 
to-day. and through them convey to their comrades the gratitude of 
the Rei)ublic for their sacrifices in its defence. A generous country 
will never forget the services you rendered, and you may ho|)e for a 
l)olicy under (iovernment that will relieve any maimed successors from 
taking your jilaces on another such occasion as this. 

Our supreme task is the resumjition of our onward, normal way. 
Reconstruction, readjustment, restoration — all these must follow. I 
would like to hasten them. If it will lighten the .spirit and add to 
the resolution with which we take up the task, let me rei)eat for our 
Nation, we shall give no people just cau.se to make war upon us; we 
hold no national i)rejudices; we entertain no spirit of revenge; we 
do not hate; we do not covet; we dream of no contiuest. nor boast 
of armed ])rowess. 

If. despite this attitude, war is again forced ui)on us. I earnestly 
hope a way may be found which will unify our individual and collective 
strenglh and consecrate all .Vmcrica, materially and spiritually. 



I N A r (. I R A I, A 1) 1) K K S S 

body and soul, to luitional defence. I can \ ision the ideal Republic, 
where every man and woman is called under the Hag for assignment 
to duty for whatever service, militarj' or civic, the individual is best 
fitted; where we may call to universal ser\ice every plant, agency, 
or facility, all in the sublime sacrifice for country, and not one jjenny 
of war profit shall inure to the benefit of i)rivate individual, corpo- 
ration, or combination, but all above the normal shall fiow into the 
defence chest of the Nation. There is something inliercntly wrong, 
something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, 
when one portion of our citizenslii]) turns its activities to jtrivate gain 
amid defensive war while another is figliting, ^Mcrifiiiiig, ov dyiiii; 
for national jjreservation. 

Out of such universal service will come a new unity of si)irit and 
purpose, a new confidence and consecration, which would make our 
defence impregnable, our triumph assured. Then we should ha\<- 
little or no disorganization of our economic, industrial, and conunercial 
systems at home, no staggering war debts, no swollen fortunes to flout 
the .sacrifices of our soldiers, no excuse for scditimi, no pitiable slack- 
erism, no outrage of treason. En\y and ]\'alou>.y would have no soil 
for their menacing dcvelopmeiil, and rc\ olulioii woulil be without 
the passion which engenders it. 

A regret for the mistakes of yesterday must not, however, bliml 
us to the tasks of to-day. War never left such an afternialh. Then- 
has been staggering loss of fife and measureless wastage of mati'rial.-. 
Nations are still groping for return to stable ways. Discouraging 
indebtedness confronts us like all the war-loni ii.itioii-. and these 
obligations must be provided for. No (■i\ ilizal ion can survive 
repudiation. 

We can reduce the aimonnal expeiidiluics. and we will. We can 
strike at war taxation, and we nnist. We must face the grim necessity, 
with lull knowledge that the task is to be solved, and w.- must procee.l 
with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can lepeal the 
inexorable laws of nature. Our most dangerous tendency is lo ex- 
pect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. 

We contemplate the immediate task of putting our public household 
in order. We need a rigid and yet sane economy, combined with fiscal 
justice, and it must be attended by individual prudence and thrift, 
which are so essential to this trying hour and reassuring for the liiturc. 

The business world reflects the disturbance of war's reaction 
Herein flows the lifeblood of material existence. The economii- 
mechanism is intricate and its ])arts interdei)endent. and has suffered 
the shocks and jars incident to abnormal demands, credit inflations, 
and price ujjheavals. The normal balances have been impaired, the 
channels of distribution have been clogged, the relations of labor an<l 
management have been strained. We must .seek the readjustment 
with care and courage. Our people must give and take. Prices musi 
reflect the receding fever of war activities. Perhaps we nexcr shall 
know the old levels of wage again, becau.se war invariably readjusl- 
compensations, and the necessaries of life will show their insc|)aral)lc 



I X A r (; I' R A 1. A I) 1) H K s s 

tlio iH-iuiltii's will not bo light, nor evenly distriliuted. There is no 
way of making them so. There is no instant step from disorder to 
order. We must face a condition of grim reality, charge off our losses, 
and start afresh. It is the oldest lesson of civilization. I would like 
government to ilo all it can to mitigate; then, in understanding, in 
nnitnality of interest, in concern for the common good, our tasks will 
l>e solved. No altered system will work a miracle. Any wikl experi- 
ment will only add to the confusion. Our host assurance lies in effi- 
cient administration of our ])roven .system. 

The forward course of the business cycle is unmistakable. Peoples 
are turning from destruction to production. Industry has sen.sed 
the changed order and our own people are turning to resume their 
normal, onward way. The call is for i)roductive America to go on. 
I know that Congress and the .Vdniinistration will favor every wise 
Government jjolicy to aid the resuin|)ti(>n and encourage continued 
progress. 

I speak for adniinislrative efficiency, for lightened tax burdens, i\>r 
sound connncrcial i>ractices, for adeciuale credit facilities, for sympa- 
thetic concern for all agricultural ])roblems, for the omission of un- 
necessary interference of Government with business, for an end to 
Government's exi)eriment in business, and for more efficient business 
in tJovernment administration. With all of this must attend a mind- 
fulness of the human side of all activities, so that social, industrial, 
and economic justice will be sipiared with tiie iiuri)oses of a righteous 
peoi)le. 

With the nation-wide induilion of womanhood into our political 
life, we may count u])on her intuitions, her refinements, her intelli- 
gence, and her infiuence to exalt the social order. We count upon 
her exercise of the full i>rivileges and the iierformance of the duties of 
• itizenship to speed the attainment of the highest state. 

I wish for an America no less alert in guarding against dangers 
from within tlian it is watchful against enemies from without. Our 
fundamental law recogm'zes no class, no group, no section; there nuist 
be none in legislation or administration. The supreme ins])iration 
IS the connnon weal. Humanity hungers for international peace, 
and we crave it with all mankind. My most reverent prayer for 
.Vmerica is for industrial peace, with its rewards, widely and ge'nei-ally 
distril)uted. amid the inspirations of equal ojiportunity. No one 
justly may deny the equality of opportunity which made us what we 
are. We iiave mistaken unin-e])aredness to embrace it to be a chal- 
lenge of the reality, and due concern for making all citizens fit for 
participation will gi\(> added strength of citizenshij) and magnify our 
achievement. 

If revolution iiisi-ts upon overturning cstablisli<.,l ,,r.l<T. let olhei- 
peoples make the tragic experiment. Tiicre is no i)lacc for it in 
America. When world war threatened civilization we pledged our re- 
sources and our lives to its preservation, and when revolution threat- 
ens we unfurl the flag of law and order and renew our consecration. 
Ours is a constitutional freedom where the pojiular will is the law su- 
preme and minorities are sacredly protected. Our revisions, reforma- 

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I N A II (i U R A L ADDRESS 

tions, ami evolutions reflect a deliberate jiul.mneiit and an orderly 
progress, and we mean to eure our ills, hut never destniy or |)erniit 
destruction by force. 

I had rather submit our industrial conlroxersies to tlie couferenre 
table in advance than to a .settlement table after conflict and suffcrint;. 
The earth is thirsting for the cup of good-will, understanding is its 
fountain-.source. I would like to acclaim an era of good-feeling amid 
dependable prosperity and all the blessings which attend. 

It has been proved again and again that we cannot, while throwing 
our markets open to the world, maintain American standards of living 
and opijortunity, and hold our industrial eminence, in such unequal 
competition. There is a luring fallacy in the theory of banished 
barriers of trade, but preserved American standards require our higher 
|)rodnctit)n costs to be reflected in our tariffs on imjjorts. To-day. 
as never before, when peoples are seeking trade restoration and ex- 
pansion, we must adjust our tariffs to the new order. We s(»ek i)arti- 
cipation in the world's exchanges, because therein lies our way to 
widened influence and the triumphs of peace. We know full well we 
cannot .sell where we do not buy, and we cannot .sell successfully where 
we do not carry. Opportunity is calling not alone for the restoration, 
but for a new era in production, transportation, and trade, ^^'e shall 
answer it best by meeting the demand of a surpassing home market, 
by promoting self-reliance in production, and by bidding enter])rise, 
genius, and efficiency to carry our cargoes in .Vmerican bottoms to 
the marts of the world. 

We would not have an America living within and for iicrscif alone, 
but we would have her self-reliant, independent, and ever nobler, 
stronger, and richer. Believing in t)ur higher standards, reared 
through constitutional liberty and maintained opportunity, we invite 
the world to the same heights. Hut ])ride in things wrought is no 
reflex of a completed task. Common welfare is the goal of our na- 
tional endeavor. Wealth is not inimical to welfare; it ought to be 
its friendliest agency. There never can be equality of rewards or 
po.s.se-s.sions .so long as the human plan contains varied talents and 
differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country 
free from great blotches of distressed poverty. We ought to Hnd a 
way to guard against the perils and penalties of unem])loynient. We 
want an America of homes, illumined with ho|)e and happiness, where 
mothers, freed from the necessity for long hours of toil beyond their 
own doors, may preside as befits the hearthstone of American citizen- 
shi|). We want the cradle of American childhood rocked under 
conditions .so wholesome and .so hojjeful that no blight may touch it 
in its development, and we want to jjrovide that no selfish interest, 
no material necessity, no lack of opportunity .shall prevent the gaining 
of that education .so essential to best citizenship. 

There is no short cut to the making of these ideals into glad realities. 
The world has witne.s.sed again and again the futility and the mischief 
of ill-considered remedies for social and economic disorders. But we 
are mindful to-day as never before of the friction of modern indu.strial- 
ism. and we must learn its causes and reduce its evil con.sequences by 

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soIkt and t.-sl.Ml im-tli.Kls. Whrn- f^ciiiiis luis ma.k' for .«i-<"at i)()s>i- 

welfare. 

Service is the sii])reni(' coiiimitincnt of life. I would rejoice to 
acclaim the era of tlie Golden Rule and erown it with the autoeraey 
of service. I pledge an administration wherein all the agencies of 
(lovernment are called to serve, and ever promote an miderstanding 
of Government purely as an expression of the i)opular will. 

One cannot stand in tliis ])resenee and he umnindful of the tre- 
mendous resi)onsit)ility. The world upheaval has added heavily to 
our tasks. But with the realization comes the surge of high resolve, 
and there is reassurance in belief in the God-given destiny of our 
Repuljlic. If I felt that there is to be .sole responsibility in the 
Executive for the America of to-morrow I should shrink from the 
burden. But here are a hundred millions, with eonnnou concern and 
shared responsibility, answerable to God and country. The Re])ublic 
summons them to their duty, and I invite co-operation. 

I accept my part with single-mindedness of purpose and humilitx 
of spirit, and implore the favor and guidance of God in His Heaven. 
With these I am unafraid, and confidently face the future. 

I have taken the solemn oath of office on that i)assage of Holy Writ 
wherein it is a.sked: "What doth the Lord re(|uire of thee but to do 
ju.stly, and to love mercy, and to walk hnnilily with thy God?" 
This I plight to God and country. 



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T II K V K K SID K X T 

A WEI. I. KNOWN n.,v.li.| has said, "A chaiiir ivinaik will 
often illiishalr tiu- .inalily ..I' a man's cliaraclor." In the 
>tir>s ,,r .innnislanco as w..|| as in liie oalm, c.nteniplativ.- 
Mltcranr.-s u,- ,,|I.mi Inin [\w Hashlit;lit upon our iiuicr sclxcs. and 
su in srrkin- a kcv tiial will unlock tho diaracter of Wancn (. 
llanlin.i; wc nr,.! s,.,.k nu rurtii.T than tlu- littlo ciivk' ui n.'Us|,ap.M 
men aniont; v\hiini nmsl ,,f his hTc work has lii;en done. 

"Reinenil)ci- Ihiac aic luci sides h, i-wvv (ineslion,"' he once said 
lu the staff un iiis pap,T. -(i.-l liotii. He truthfnl. (iet the facts. 
Mistakes arc inevilal.le. I,nt slriv f,,r accnracv. I would ratii.T 
have one slor.v exaelly ri-hl llian one hun.lre.'l iialf wroUK," an.l 
Ihencunliiniin,-. lie «,-nl <>n losay: "He decent: l.efair; he generous. 
U.M.st don't kno<k. Theiv is o,,„d i„ everybody. Bring out the 
-nn.\ in .■veryhody. l,nl never needlessly luirt the feelings of any- 
Ixxly. In reporting a |)olitieal convention, give the facts; tell the 
story as it is. Treat all i)arties alike. If there's any polities to he 

played, we'll play il in • editorial columns. Treat all religious 

matters reverenlly. it il can possihlv I..' avoided, never bring 
1-nomlny t,.an innn.-cnl man.,r<hild in telling of the misdeeds of a 
rel.iti\c. Doii'l wail lo be asked, but do it without asking: and 
.above all. be ek'an. .and nex'er lei a dirty word or a su,ggestive story 
-et inio 1,\|"'. I w.ml this i>aper so conducted that it can go into 
.my home without destroying the innocence of any child." 

Il.'re speaks the sterling representative of the great class that has 
done so much for everything that is worth while in the world. 
Warren (,. H.irdiiig. Hie twenty-ninth President of the United 
States, lamc of a family whi<h a centurv ago settled in a little Ohio 
village in .M,,rrow C.mnly named after Corsica -the birthplace of 

N'apok 15..,aus,- Ih.- clearing was dotle.l with many beautiful 

shrubs and lovely llowias. it took upon itself the name by which it 
has since been known— Hlooniing (u-ove. 

The history of the Hardings (who came to .Vmerica in Kl'i.S) is one 
of daring and courage. Prior to the Revolution, they ])ushed west- 
ward and settled in the Wyoming \'alley of I'emisylvania. It was 
here in the Wyoming Massacre of July k 1778, that a gron|) of the 
Harding family met the supreme test unflin<liingly. 

Senator Harding's maternal grandmother. Charitv \'an Kirk, was 
of Dutch birth, and her grandfalli<'r, .losiali Xnn Kirk, had seven 
.sons in the Revolutionary War. 

Other nieml)ers of Senator Harding's family fought in the Indian 
war.s, and his father. Dr. (ieorge T. Harding', saw honorabl(> service 
in the Civil War. 

In the early eighties Ihe immedialc fauiily ..f rresident Il.ardiiig 
moved to Marion, and it you had visited this town during the cam- 
paign you might have seen Dr. George T. Harding, the elderly 
father of the i)resent President, ])ractising his j)rofession through the 
wide countryside, and a glance at the doctor's honest face would 
show you from whom the plain virtues of the President were in- 

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lK'rit('(l. 'J'he doctor's office is .sini])ly I'lirnislied. Tlieic's liiioleiiiii 
on the floor, a rocking-chair in the \vin(h)\v, more or h>ss litter over 
his desk, and on the walls a picture of Betsy Ross, J>incoln, and 
the doctor's President son. A slate and ])encil hang near the door 
in case a patient desires to leave a message during the doctor's ah- 
sence. In speaking of automobiles, the doctor was wont to say: 
"I had two — one ran into a wire fence trying to dodge a load of hay. 
and the other had a meaner disposition than any balky hoi-se I have 
ever known. No, I like to walk or ride behind a horse," and so tlic 
doctor's horse and buggv have long been a familiar siylit about 
Marion. 

In the doctor's modest home at Hloomiii- Cn.ve, November 
"i, lS(i.5, was b(,rn Warren V.. Ilar.ling. llu' seventh Presidential 
nominee to be born in the State of Oliio, I'ntil his fourteenth 
year AVarren Harding lived and woiked on his father's farm and 
attended the country school. Every |)hase of farm life became 
to him an open book, and when he later became printer and jour- 
nalist he had that ruggedness which comes from clo.se contact with 
the invigorating heart of old nature. He graduated from tlie Ohio 
Central College in 188''>, having paid his way through the institution 
by such strenuous jobs as digging potatoes, cutting corn, harvest ini: 
hay, making roads, painting barns, teaching school, and learned 
j)rinting in a country newspajjer office. Two years after his graduation 
his father moved to Marion, Ohio, and bought for his son an interest 
in the :\Iarion Dalli/ Star, the ]iai)er still owned and edited bv Presi- 
dent Harding. 

In 188!) Harding ])ecame a state Senator, iuiving early l)ecome 
interested in politics. He was in turn elected a member of the 
seventy-fifth and seventy-sixth Ohio General As.semblies from the 
Thirteenth District from 1899 to 190,S; he served the State as 
Lieutenant-Governor in 1904 05; and in 1914 he was elected to 
the United States Senate by a majority of more than a Imndred 
thousand. For years he was an alile lieutenant in the ])olitical 
regime of Senator Foraker and imbibed his knowledge of polities 
aiul needs of the country from the same .sources and under the 
same inspiration as did our late President William McKinley. 

While a stanch upholder of party government, he is a hrni be- 
liever in popular government, but has always been on domestic 
issues a constructive conservative, believing in the utmost freedom 
of discussion and free speech, save where free speech becomes treason- 
able and di.scussion takes on the guise of the instigation of violence. 

"I like to think that we in the United States of America have come 
nearer to establishing a dependable i)oi)ular government than any 
other ])eople in the world," he said in a pre-convention address before 
the Home Market Club of Boston, when he and Vice-President 
Coolidge sjioke from the same platform. "Let us cling to the things 
which made us what we are. Yet America has just begun. It is 
only morning in our national life. I believe there is a destiny for 
this Rei)ublic; that we are called to the inheritance and are going 
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cling fast to tlio iiilRTitaiico wlii.li is ours, nevor IVariii?^ tlie cuoiiiy 
from without, Init watching the enemies from witliin, and move 
on to the fulfilment of a splendid destiny." 

His record in the Senate is in strict accordance with these truly 
American views. He voted three times for the National Suffrage 
.Vmendment: worked in harmony with Senator Henry Cahot Lodge 
in fighting for reservations that would safeguard America in the 
League of Nations; and has supported his party throughout his 
Senatorial career, believing that the Reinihlican party has stood 
for the best things in America and as a jiarty man it should have his 
support. 

ReaHzing that his etHcicncy as a Senator would partially depend 
u|)on his knowledge of foreign affairs, he has been aljroad a number 
of times, studying systems of government and economic problems, 
tariff, standard of wages for labor, ami modes of life in various com- 
munities. On becoming a I'nited States Senator, he visited the 
Hawaiian Islands in order to get first-hand information in regard 
to the jjroduction and distribution of sugar. He has spoken in 
nearly every State in the Union and has achieved a rei)utation for 
open-mindedness in arriving at a conclusion, and the utmost stead- 
fastness in carrying his decisions to their ultimate conclusion. He 
served as chairman of one National Convention and was singled out 
as the Presidential candidate of another in 1920. Cool, with a con- 
siderate heart, he has a rare faculty for remembering statistics and 
business facts, and has the sound common sense of the cominon 
people. He has epitomized in his first cam])aign speech his political 
^.reed — a lietter one than which it would be difficult to find: — 

"To safeguard America first. 

"To stal)ilize America first. 

"To prosper America first. 

"To exalt America first. 

"To live for and revere America first." 



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THE ancestral home of Calvin Coolidge lies high up in the wilds 
of the (ireen Mountains, where the call of the bob-white 
resounds through the woodland, and no clangor of locomo- 
tives breaks the silence of the dream-wrajiped hills. Trout dart 
hither and thither in the forest streams, and deer graze in the clear- 
ings. There are ])robably some of the four hundred inhabitants of 
Plymouth Notch who didn't know until days after that he was 
nominated for the Vice-Presidency, or that Calvin Coolidge had been 
elected the Governor of Massachusetts. To these he is still "Cal" 
—not a great man, but, like his neighbors, honest, dependable, and 
a son of the soil. In jjolitical life, Calvin Coolidge has the name of 
being a silent man. Tiiey say at Plymouth Notch that he used up 
all his language in driving oxen when lie was a boy. 

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••I |,l.,u.-lu',l \UM liilltop in tl..- |M>lurv «itli a pair of (A.m,.- >ai.l 
Calvin Coolidso. iiointiiio t., a part ..f llir I w.,-limi.liv.l-a.iv farm. 
"It took a lot of language to do it." 

•'I was horn in tlu- little red lionse across llic road.' lie a.ld.-d 
"I kept the store to wliich the honse is atla.lu'd," sai.i his father 
-An.i he use.l to sh.ie imrs.-s -hud -.-in ail n.un.l f..r a .lollar." 
interposed the grands., n. 

To ai)preeiate Calvin Coolidge lie ninst he se.'ii on In- nali\.' -oil. 
amid the surroundings which have made him what li<' i-. Into hi- 
fihre have gone the firmness of his native mountain-. lh<' g.-nll.-nes- 
of the young mother who <lied when Calvin wa- a lad, the e-en.c ..I 
the old hooks eneased in the home -.Mrelary Ilarriel U.M.her 
Stowe'sLivesof theMenofOurTim.--, Wa-hinglon and hi- ( i.'rierals. 
l>ivingstone Lost and Fonnd, and Stories of the Uihie. 

The date and the pla.-e of Calvin Coolidgv'- hirlh have plea-ani 

an.l ot"tlie hirth of In.lepen.hnee in Am.ri.a. I?e wa- horn in 
Plymouth, Vermont, the l^th of .Inly. hS7'.'. lie greu np on hi- 
grandfather's farm, attended the country -.ho.il, an.l enter.'d .Vniher-I 
College in IKOl. lie then rea.l law in a .-onnlry ..Hi,-.', an.l h.-an th,- 
j)raetiee of his ja-ofession in Xorlhaniplon. Ma-a.hn-.-ll-. wIi.mv 
he won the respect and trust ..f hi- f.-llou -l.,u n-m.'n a- Ih,' lo.al 
hlaeksmith recently expr.'-.'.l it "hcan-.' when h.' -ay- h.'"ll .1.. a 
thin-, he does it." Vari.ais puhli.- .,tH.-e- .ame 1., him. an.i h.' n.-v.a- 
lost an .•l.-.lion. II.' has l,...'i, Iwi.e a .an.li.lat.' for niay.r .,f N.irth- 
ampt..n. Iwi.-e f..r th.' Stat.' l,.'gi-lal ur.'. lonr lim.-- for llu' Stat,' 
Senate, three times tor l-ieulenant-(iovernor ..f Ma-sa.hn-.'tt-, an.l 
twice for (lovernor of the Commonwealth. 

Vice-I'resident Coolidge attracted worl.l-u i.l.' atl<'nti..n dnriuL: 
the ix.lice strike in 15..stou in the fall ..f 1!)1!). -i'ln' p..li,-.'ni.'n .,1 
the city joined the American Federation .>f l-ah.>r .•.,ntrary l.i tiu' 
rules .if the ne])artment. and su.hlenlv l.'fl th.ir po-t-, l.'avin- 
I?ost.)n exposed to th.-fts. assault, an.l ri..l-. In a leu h.>nr-. hu-in.'- 
I>laces were hroken int.. an.l th.uisan.l- ..f .l..llar-" w..rlh ..f m.'r- 
chandise stolen. The life ami free.h.m .,f I h.' .ily ils.'lf wa- inip.riU.'.l. 
Then it was that Coolidge summone.l Ih.' Slal.' Ir.i.ips; th.' .ily was 
placeil under their control; rioting .ea-.-.l; p.'a.-.' ua- r.'-l.n-.-.h an.l 
eventually a new ])olice force was organized. 

"There is no right to strike against the puhlie safety hy aiiyl....iy. 
anywhere, at any time!" said Coolidge. Messages |)oured in fmni 
all ])arts of America and Eurojie voicing approval .)f Cooli.U.'- 
action. His duty done, a Xaliou's trust liaving heen ])laeed in him, 
this silent aijostle ..f "adecpiate hrevity." this calm, sfpiar.'-jaw.'.l. 
s|)iritually endowed man. again h.'.ame a- -il.Mit as th.' m.innlain- 
that adorn his native State. 

His name a symhol of law and or.ler. \ i.'e-l'r.'si.lent C....li.lg.- h,-.- 
many of the characteristics of the Rail-splitler of Kentu.ky: Ih. •hum- 
hie surroundings of his hirth. the struggle for an educati.)n, hi- studs 
of law in a country office, a practice estahlish.'.i in a -mall .'onnnunilx . 

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use of wor.is— all have parallds in the life of Linculii. X,,l Irasl nf 
his virtues must he reckoned his poise under all conditions. Re- 
cently a IJoston editor told a story that has a very Lincoln-like flavor. 
During; a ])olitical caiii])ai,nn, long before Calvin Coolidge was elected 
(ioN-ernor of Massachusetts, he one evenint; dropped into the office 
of the Herald and settled himself \\ilii a newspaper in the most 
comfortable chair which the office alVordcd. The office mouse 
a])|)eared and in the course of its ])eregrinations scami)ered across 
Coolidgc's feet. For several minutes the reader did not stir — then, 
dropping the newspaper on his lap, he observed with a drawl, "That 
seemed to be a mouse." He then resumed his reading and did not 
mo\'e for another ten minutes. Nor is what at times has ap])eared 
to be his nncanny aloofness understood nntil the observer has gone 
back to the square-jawed, sili-nt farnier-folk of W-rniont from whom 
he spnuig. 

Vice-President Coolidgc's mode of living is as sim|)le in essence as 
it was when — a barefoot boy — he trod the ])aths of his native town. 
After his nomination to the Vice-Presidency he went to ^'ermont, 
where he chopped wood and harvested hay on his father's farm. 
His home is in a two-family frame house in Nortliam|)ton, Massa- 
chusetts, where the rent was recently raised from ^'■H to $.'{'•2 a month. 
His Boston home while (io\ernor was a hotel a])aitnient. He has 
never owned an automobile, and he has occui)ied the same law office 
in Northampton since he began to practise. 

Vice-President Coolidge has said many telling things. His epi- 
grams are often quoted, and his little book, "Have Faith in Massa- 
chusetts," is familiar to thousands of readers. "Let us keej) faith 
in each other and keep faith in ourselves," advises Calvin Coolidge. 
Some recent remarks of Mce-President Coolidge are; — 

"Do the day's work. 

"E.xpect to be called a stand-jjatter. hut don't be a stand-])atter. 

"Expect to be called a demagogue, but don't be a demagogue. 

"Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as .science. 

"Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multii)li( ation lalile. 

"We need more of the office desk and less of the show-window in 
politics. 

"Let men in public life substitute the midniuht oil for the lime- 
light. 

"Men do not make laws; they do but iliscover them." 



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CHARLES EVANS HUGHKS 

Secrclarr/ of Sfute 

A lawyer, devotod to the highest ideals of his i)rotVssion; a i^uv- 
ernor who, in the exercise of his duties as chief magistrate of New- 
York, conscientiously and fearlessly served the best interests of the 
people; an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 
endowed with unerring perception, sound judgment, and an excep- 
tional mastery of the j)rinciples of law; a man of magnetic person- 
ality, with a ready smile and keen eyes which seem to search one's 
very soul, — such is Charles Evans Hughes as he has established 
himself in the esteem of the American people and as he is known to 
his friends. He has become Secretary of State during one of the 
most momentous periods in the history of the world, and what he 
does in the great office to which he has been called will be closely 
watched not only in America but all over the civilized world. Eor 
never in the hi.story of this country has the glare of jMtilcss scrutiny 
been focussed on any one as it will be upon Charles Evans TInghcs. 

While he was Governor of New York State an oxccutiNc in tlir 
Executive Department was a.sked by a visitor wliat the (;<i\ iinur's 
relaxations were, antl the laconic reply was — 

"Why, he works." 

Indeed, his almost niacliinc-likc capacity for turning out work 
im|)ressed all who came in touch with him ([uite us nuich as did his 
scholarly gras]> of the law in all its myriad ramifications. 

When one learns he began tiie study of (ircck at the ag<' of eight, was 
a student of theology at the age of ten, and at fourteen had entered 
Ct)lgate University, one does not question the unusual mind of Mr. 
Hughes. In his home library there are fewer law books than works 
on |)liiloso|)hy and history. On the shelves of his bookcases may be 
seen Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philo.sophy, The Descent of Man, 
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Landor's Imaginary 
Conversations, the works of Thomas Carlyle, of Kant, Darwin, 
Huxley, Haeckel, and Locke. If he were asked what he does for 
relaxation, he would confess that Conan Doyle is one of his favorite 
authors and that a thrilling mystery or detective story is one of the 
best .sedatives for a tired brain he knows. His athletic, slalwarl 
form is indicative of physical exercise. Indeed, for many sunniiers 
he spent his vacation climbing the Alps. He is an ardent golf en- 
thusiast and also very fond of music. .V thumbnail biography of 
Mr. Hughes reads about as follows: — 

He is the son of a Baptist minister, and was born at (dens Falls, 
New York, April 11. IHdi. After two years at Colgate Unixcrsity 
he went to Brown and graduated in 1881. Three years later he IkmI 
com])leted a course at the Columbia La\v School and was admitted 
to the bar. He commenced the i)ractice of law in New York City, 
where he at once rose to prominence as a |)ublic figure. He began 




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lu> lau .aiv.T as a rh'ik in Hi.- ulli.-,- oC ( lianilKMhiiM, Caller & ilcrn 
M..WC1-. an.l mamc.i in ISSS Miss AnIcincI I.- Carlci-. a .iaii-jit.'i- of 
tlir s.'ninr nuMiil.cr of lliis firm. ..f which lie hinisrlf Jat.T IxTanie a 
nieniL.T. Fnini ISltl lo ISihi lie was professor at the Law Si-hool 
al ('(.rnell I'liiversilv. He first canie into proniineiic.- in l!l(l.". a- 
e,,iin>el for the StexVii. (ias Cornniission. where he nol ,,nlv dis- 
.loMMJ ,erlain tiaws in .oine ,,f the fraiK-iiises an.l pro\e,| Ihal manv 
othei- had expir.-,!, hnl was also alil.- lo liriim ah,, ill le-i-lalion 
whi,-li .vniove.l nnnieroiis eviU in Ihe loeal -as sili,ali,,n an,l .ait 
the uas rate to eighty .■.■nis a tlioiisaii.l feet. lie then I.eeanie 
.onnsel of Ihe Armstrong liisiiraiiee ('onil)any. refnsiiiu the noniina- 
li.in for Mayor of Ihe eil\ . in onler lo earry on for the coininiltee 
an iiiNCstiualion of the laryc insurance coni])anies doini;' hiisiness in 
Ihe Slate. Ifis niasterfnl liandlin- of this investigation reveale.l 
iiiiieh inisinananvnicnt and <-orriiption and i)rouKiil ahont an amend- 
ment t,. 111.' State InsnraiK'c Laws, whi.-li resulted in many important 
ivforilis in Ihe iiisiiranee l.ilsiness. 

His siK.-ess in Ihis uork led lo his I iiialioii ill liMMi lor (iov'eriior 

.,f Neu V,,rk l.v Ih.- K.piil.lieaii parly, an.l he was .■I.vI.mI in spit.- 
..f th.' ..pp.,siti.>n .,f many fa. lions whos.' enmity h.' lia.l ar..iis,.l 
Kv th.- fearl.-ss an.l al.le .-..iLlnel ..f ihe investiuat l..ns I., whi.-li lu- 
was .all.Ml. Wh.Mi ..ppose.l liv a niajorilv in Ihe Le-islatiire on a 
Kill t<, .■slaMish I'liMi,- S.'rvi.-.- ('..nimissi,,ns. (iovernor Flii-hes 
app..d.Ml t., th.- p,.,ple. an.l s., uival was Ih.. pnhli.- s..ntim.-nt an.use.l 
that the hill was pas.s.'d. Despite lik.- oppositi..ii li<- sii,-,-,M.le,l in 
havin- anti-^amhlinfi- laws ..na.l.'.l an.l l.r..n-lil al.oni oIIi.t ivloriiis 

Shortly h.'hMv the .■xpirali.m ..f his s,..-,,n,l l.-rin as <..,v,'r ■. h.- 

was ajMK.int.'.l l.y Pr.-si.lenI Tafl I.. Ih.- h.-n.-h <.f the Siipivm.' C.inrt 
of the Unit.-.l Stales, wlier.' h.' s.rxc.l until l!)l(i, when he was n..mi- 
nat.'.l r..r l{.'|)nl.li.an .aii.li.lal.' lor I'lvsideiit. and resjoiied to eon- 
dii.t his .ainpaiun. S.. .los,- uas Ihe ele.'tiuu that the result was 
ii..t known f..r s.-v.-ral .lavs an.l was finally decided hy the Calif..niia 
v..te Inrniiin Ih.' s.al.s in fav..r of W.hkIh.w Wils..ii. After the 
.■le.tioii Mr. linuh.s h.-.-anu- a nieml.er of the law firm ..f Hn-hes. 
I{..nn.ls, S.hnrnian & Dwi-lil. anil in 1!)1S was appointc.l a special 
.issiMaiil lo Ih.- Attorney -(Jeneral in the aircraft in(|iiiry. His 
api).>inlm<-iil l.i Ih.- Secretary of Stale ..file.- in Mr. Har.lin;:"s .-al.inel 
is .-..iisi.l.-r.-.l .UK- ..f Ih.- latt.-r's l,.-s| appoint inenls. 

Ilis linia.l svmi.athv an.l .-..iis.i.-nl i.iiis ,-.,ndii.t of ..tii.e ha v.- l,.-,-n 
shown l.v s,rnpnl..ns fairn.-ss an.l hi-li .-.m.-ept i..n ..f piil.li.- .Intv. 
|{y nianv h.- has I..-,-,, r.-.-ar.l.-.l as a ...hi man of inysfry, l.nt that 
h.- is iiit.-nscly hnmaii is sh..wn l.y this st..iy ..f an incident which 
...-enrred dnrini; his term as (iovernor. A par.L.n lia.l hecn sought 
for two yontif; murderers. There was no doiiht as to the ^nilt of 
the two jnen, hut hoth were very youni; and c.nsi.lerahlc cti'.>rt was 
heinu ma.le to have th.-ir sentenees commute.l. .V man wh.ise sense 
.)f justice was uiitempcrcd with mercy wonl.l h;i\c waste.l little time 
in reiuleriiifi his decision, hut dav after .lav went hv and still (iov- 
.-nior Ilnuh.-s .l.'l.ate.l the .pu-stion. whil.'- tin- wrinkl.- ..f anxiety 



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across his forehead deepened iKT<t'))tilily. On the night l)efore his 
decision had to be made, he paced the cxecutixe chambers for hour 
after hour in deep meditation. People saw his Huht burnini; far 
into the night. The next day he solemnly announced that he had 
not been able to commute the sentences. 

"It is in ca.ses like this, gentlemen," he said to the no\vspai)er 
correspondents who came to interview him, "that a man really 
realizes what it means to be a Governor!" He brought his fist down 
upon the desk with a heavy blow, sighed, then straightened his 
shoulders and turned to the consideration of a batch of official docu- 
ments which were waiting him. 



ANDREW W. MELLON 

Secretary of Treasurij 

He did not seek the honor of directing a nation's finances, — this 
modest, retiring man with his gentle manner and his diffident nature. 
In fact, it took considerable arguing to convince him that only a 
man with his experience and ability could successfully fill the position 
of Secretary of the Treasury during a period when the difficulties 
attending that job were increased by the tremendous money prob- 
lems growing out of the war. Such a position requires a financial 
expert, and if ever a man qualified under that head it was .\ndrew \V. 
Mellon, the Pittsburgh banker and multimillionaire. 

Mr. Mellon is the son of Thomas Mellon, the Irish innnigrant from 
Coimty Tyrone, Ireland, who came to America with his parents when 
he was only .six years old. Po.sse.ssed of a remarkable iDusiness abil- 
ity, combined with ambition, energy, and ])erseverance, Thomas 
ISIellon amassed an enormous fortune, becoming one of the richest men 
in Pennsylvania. The money was made out of land, coal, iron ore, 
and oil. The three sons, among whom he distriljuted $1'25,000,000 
about twenty-five years before his death, have followed in the elder 
Mellon's footsteps, until to-day it is estimated that the combined 
wealth of the family amounts to $500,000,000. It was the Irish 
immigrant "Tom" Mellon who gave Henry C. Frick his start by 
loaning him $-20,000 to establish his coke industry in Pennsylvania. 

Andrew Mellon is not generally known throughout the country. 
In fact, comparatively few outside of his native State of Penn.syl- 
vania and certain business circles had heard of his name until Jiis 
ai)])ointment to a seat in the Cabinet was announced. Yet that 
name holds an important place in the records of the Aluminum 
Company of America, of the Gulf Oil Company, the American Loco- 
motive Works, the Crucible Steel Company, the Standard Steel Car 
Company, the New York Shipbuilding Company, and numerous 
])ower companies, local street railways, water companies, trust coin- 
lianies, and fire insurance companies. The Mellon National Bank 
of Pitt.sburgh. which is perhaps his favorite enterprise, has a capital 
of $6,000,000. The concerns in which he is interested jiave resources 
of more than .$SO().(l()(),{)()0. The fact tliat tlie majorily of his great- 

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ANDREW W. MELLON 



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.-t .•nt.-n.ris,-, urrc l.n.ii-lit tn liim "i, iki|kt ;n,.l li.- ri^k.'.l ln> ..uii 
inoiu'v to promote tli.^in l.ocansc he was al.lr to >.-.■ lli.ii- (.ossilnlilu's. 
illustrates the far-sighted vision of the man. ll is tins vision r,w^>U->\ 
with his reuiarkahle administrative ability tlial aecoiiiils lor his 
Hnaneial sncvess. Capital never saw any .ommeiviai possil.ililies hi 
,-arl.orniidiini until he l.'d th<- way. 

Mellon has an intense interest in tiieir w.^ifaiv, and often has inter- 
vened in their l.ehalf wh.-n eapital has sought to oppress tlu^ni. ll 
is eharaeteristi.- of him that, thoni^h he is a " phiianl hropist of ll,.- 
Hrst water." few know of his nnmeroiis I.enefaetio.is. wlii.li iik'IihI.- 
millions -iven to <haritv and education. He has ^iven lari;v sums to 
the Tniversitv of PittsluMKli. of whieh he is a -ra.hiat.^. II<' and his 
l.rother eslal'ilisli.Ml I he Mellon Institute in eonne.-li.m with 111.- 
riii\-ersil\ of I'.'nnsylvaiiia. where yonn^ men may receive assistance 
in workin- out new ideas in [W industrial field. 

Although sixty-eifiht yi'ais ,,r a-e, Mr. Mellon poss.-.Ms ,,n .■nei::y 
and a vi^or whieh uniiiv a younger man uiifiht en\\. Ili- ^pliMidid 
!,..alth has heen attrihiii.-.l partly to iiorsel.ack-ridiii-. uliicii lias I.e.. n 
his lifeloiif; recreation. Within the last two years he has taken up 
-olf and has .leveK.l)ed .-ousiderahl.. .•nllmsiasm lor it. He cares 
nothini; for fashiouat.le societv. and tiioiioli a m.Mnl.cr of iiumeroiis 
,-luhs. it is SMi.l that ll.- raivly iim-. then, ..xc-rt lor an occasional 
lunch or dinner. 

Durin- tiic war Mr. Mell..n pracli.ally withdrew from his l.usines> 
activities, tiiat he iiuKht devote himself to war work. The Mellon 
National liank l.ou-ht more Lil.erly and .Vllie.l l.onds than any 
other hank in the eountiy. Wiicii appealed to for aid in the War 
Savings eampaif>n, Mr. Mellon luriicd over a wlioh' hank l.uil.liii^ 
for u.se in the work. On one o<-<asi..n wli.-ii III.' late Champ Clark 
ami Mvron T. Herrick will lo !'itlsl,ui-li lo assisi in Ihe <-ampai!;ii. 
Mr. mVMou was urued to march in liic Mivcl para.l... Havin- all 
his life shrunk from piihlieitv of every sort, he naturally denmrred. 

hut when it was impresse.l upon him that it would h.^lp I ke 111.- 

Ihinu a smvess, he sai.l, "Very well. Til n.ar.li." .Vn.l ii.' did. .-vry 
ste]) Of th.' seven mil.'s. ..n foot! Not lon^ after that, when the 
(inestion arose as I., who should he chairman of the organization 
whieh had heen forme.l of th.' various .s..cieties in the .ity. all—" I'rot- 
estant and Catholic, Jew and Cenlile, l)arl)er and hanker" -cried 
"Andrew W. Mellon!" No one worrie.l after that ah.mt the suc- 
.•ess of th.- .-amijainn. Kveii when Ihe or>.ani/ati..ii was $^20,()(»0,()(l(l 

shv of its .inota. oiu- of th.- .lire.tors sai.l: "I)..iri worry ,il I that. 

M'elh.n will take it." An.l Mellon .li.l. 

The attenti..!! not only of this .-..untry hut of almost the entire 
world is .lirected up.>n the new .Vilministrati.tn, and many are woii- 
.lerino if there is anv oik- capahle .>f undertaking the financial |)rol.- 
l.-nis whi.-h .•.mfn.nl' it. Tli..se win. know An.lr.-w W. M,-ll..ii, ii..w- 
.v.T will sav: "Don't w..rrv al.oul that. M.-ll..n will ilo il." .Ku.l 
it is a pretlv safe -ness that Melh.n will! 



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li AUKV M. DAliiUKlMV 

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It has iH-en sai.l llial "if Ilan-y M. DaiiKluTty lia.l lu-.-n I wins, on,- 
of him would lia\t' hceii a ])oHli(ian aii<l thi- otlii-r a iawvci-." A> it 
is, he has been chh-ed to tackle l.otii jol.s l.y lii.ns.-M-l 'I'he two 
outstanding events in his career — the huuhiin of llic I'lcsidential 
nomination for Mr. Harding, and his a|)pointnicnl a- Attorney- 
(leneral of the T'nited States — seem to indicate tlial lie has made a 
success of both. He iK'ver mixes law and j)olitics. Iiowcxcr. Only 
recently when an important legal matter came up for his considera- 
tion, he shut himself away fnmi the inevitable line of |)oliticians and 
job-seekers awaiting him and worked on the case until two o'clock 
in the morning. The next ilay. after he had attended to the matt.^r 
in .-onrt. he went b.ack to his office and resunUMl liis rol.' as Daugherty 

Mr. Daugherty was born al Wasjiington Courthouse, Fayette 
County, Ohio, in IHtld. As a l)<)y he did errands, worked as a gar- 
dener, and clerked in a slorc. tiiat he might obtain the necessary funds 
to go to college. In ISSl he graduated from the T'niversity of Michi- 
gan with the degree of LL.H. He conuneiiced his ])ractice at Wash- 
ington Courthouse, as an associate of a local lawver, and fiiiallv went 
to Columbus, where he opened a law ofhce with'E. 1$. Kincaid. Hi> 
political career commenced in his home town, and for thirty years 
he has been a i)rominent figure in the tenip.'stuons Hghling of the 
Ohio political ar.Mia. 

"In those early days al Waslii„gl.,n (onrliu.ns,-." w arc told, "a 
political fight was a political hghl, and Dangli.Mly w;,s early in a 
position of leadership. One of the stories liial is told, wiiidi max or 
uiav not be true, is that one time things got so warm lliat a group ot 
yomig lawyers used to sit in their offices with guns on tin-ir desks, 
ur <as,- ;iny member of tii<' opposing faction should a|)|)ear. Another 
-lory relates iiow in one of the tiglils, ,i participant entered a store, 
where he was unfortunate enough to nieel his oppont'nl. who chased 
him out with a hatchet." 

From these local jjolitical s.raps, Mr. Dangh.Tty graduated int.. 
slate politics and finally got into the "national game." It has been 
a rocky coiu'se with numerous defeats aTid disai)()ointnients. but 
.Mr. Daugherty kei)t on until he has become a national Hgnre. In 
188!) he was elected to the State Legislature and .served four y<>ars. 
He .served as chairman of the State Republican Executive Connuit- 
tee in l!)l'-2 and has twice been elected chairman of the State Kepui>- 
lican Central Committee of Ohio. .Vs cam|)aign nuinager for Hard- 
ing at the Chicago Convention, however, he has establisiied his rep- 
utation as "President-maker." His friends say that h.- had Mr. 
Harding in mind for President six years ago when he used his influ- 
ence to have him el.'cle<l to the Unite.! States Senate, and apparently 
h.- has b<-eu standing behin.l him ever since. No complete history 
of the lit'id Convention will omit the liirilling details of iiow. almo>t 



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IIARR^ .M. DAUGHERTY 



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.siimlo-liMiuUMl, Ik- laiMl.Ml Ihc noininaliuii r,.i- Mr. Hanliii-. Wlien 
the deadlock came and a -roup oi' men. weary and r.'d-eyd rroni loss 
of sleej). were eloseled in eonf.'rene,- in a li,,LMnir.v room, Mr. 
Dau-berty ealmly l.ronul.l his earelnlly laid plans lo a h.-a.l, an,l 
whik> the Convent i,.n was iiel,l n]., and worn telei^raph .'dilors on 
tlie hi^ newsi)a]iers throuuhoul (lie country \vatche<l honr afler honr 
for the final word Ironi Chica-o. Ihe delegates got together and the 
nomination for Mr. Harding was put through. 

In the .stre.s.s and anxiety of this MnMinous cani|,aign Mr. Dangherty 
still found time for flving trips ha.k lo Cohiml.us to see ■■|he sweet- 
est woman in the world." This ■■swe.'l.'st woman - is Mrs. Daugh- 
ertv, the frail little invalid wife who has not walke.l for iifleen years, 
as a result of rheumatism, and Mr. Dangherty's gn>at,'st aml.ition, 
whk'h he places above ('al)inet appointments and jxilitical conciuests, 
is to see her restored to health. 



EinVIX DKXHY 

Sccrt'Uiri/ of Xiiri/ 

"Ivl, you're too old. ^'ou're too hea\y and yt)u've guL a wife. 
What's more, you'll lie a pri\ate and that means work and lots of 
it. 1 ad\ise yon not to enlist." So s|>oke the recruiting officer to 
Kdwin Denhy of Detroit, when the latter sought to enter the United 
States Marine Corps the week after this country declared war on 
(icrmany. But the re])ly did not shake Mr. Denhy 's determination 
to .serve his country in its hour of need. Moreover, as he explained 
to the officer, he was not looking for a connnission or a soft berth. 
He had been in the habit of doing what he believed to be his duty. 
He would do it now, and he did! Tiiough a marrietl man, over 
weight and many years o\ er age, he succeeded in obtaining waivers 
from Washington, and in April, Private Edwin Denby, I'liited States 
Marine Corps, saluted the Stars and Stri|)es and with raisi'd hand 
took the oath of allegiance with the other "rookies." .V few pas- 
sers-by stopped to view the ceremony with idle curiosity, but in the 
background a sweet-faced little woman in blue and gray watched 
every detail with eager interest, a brave smile on her li|)s, but with 
tears in her eyes. .\t her side, little Edwin, -Jr., thrilled by tlie glory 
of it all, threw back his shoulders and jimudly de.lared that he 
might go with ])a])a sonic day. 

Edwin Denby did not remain a jjrivate long. Soon after his 
arrival at Paris Island he became a corjioral and two months later 
was promoted to the rank of sergeant, making a splendid record as 
a drill-master to the sixty thousand recruits who passed through 
Paris Island on their way to Erance. Early in 1918 he was made a 
second lieutenant, an<l not long after received his commission as first 
lieutenant and then as cajitain. In the summer while he was in 
Erance with the Marines he was ])romoted to the rank of major. 
Each of these j.romotions came as a result of his ability and his de- 
terminaticm to su.Tced. In the spring of 1!)1!> Major D.-nby received 

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EDWIN DFAin 



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l,i> ,liMlMi-c and irllinic.l Im.iiic I.> ■■.■Mini.- Ilir rule ni mmImI,-. mi.l.ll.- 
M-r.l ImMn.-s and |,r..lV>>i..nal innn. 

Tlic ris<> in.ni ll.r Inunl.lc |)..siti..n ..I' d.-.k Iniiid ..n llic ..Id Irainin^- 
sl,i|. Y.,M-niitr, hack in tlic 'M)\. I., a scat in I'lVsid.-nl llanlinK's 
Cabinet, lias Ix-cn a lon^. sl.nv .linil.. l.nl I lie way lia> l.cni marked 
li\' many interesting' events. 

Mi: i)enhy was horn in Kvansville. Indiana, Fehniary IS. 1S7(I. 
ami is the son of Charles Denhy. the old-time ••dem..eratie Loss" of 
Indiana. When he was hut fifteen he went to Pekin- with his father, 
who liad been appointed hy President ClevelaiKJ as Minister tn 
China. There he accepted a ])osition with the Chinese lmp<Mial 
Customs service, which he held nntil he and his father rclinned l.> 
America in 185)4. He then entered the law department of the I Di- 
versity of Michigan, graduated in 18!)(i, and was admitted In l\u- har 
the same year. When the S])anish-American War hetian, he left his 
law practice to enter the service. He was a memher of the Michiuan 
naval reserves, and was mustered in as an ap])renlicc seam.in of the 
liunhoat Yosemitc. It was not an easv task for a man ot his size 
and hnild to "swah" decks, but he kept' at the job nntil he mastered 
it. He finally became a third-class onnncr's mate, and rendered 
distinguished service durini; the war. On one .iciasion he succeeded 

Mr. Denhy's ..nv.'r has b.'.Mi d.'.-i.lclly vari.-d. In V.ny> lie ua- 
elected to flic .Michigan Legislature, and two years lat.r lie repre- 
sented Detroit in the National House of Rei)resentalives. Diirinu 
his two terms at Congress he stood firmly with the "Old (iiuinl stand- 
patters" of his ])arty. .Vs a business man he has met \\ilhlar;;t- 
succe.ss. Realizing; the immense o|)port\uiilies ])resentcd by the 
automobile industrv, he establishe.l the Denby Motor Truck Com- 
pany, and was one of the original sto<-kholders of the Hupj) Motor ( 'ar 
Cori)oration. He has also had important bankinti, connections, hav- 
ing served as a director of the National Hank of Commcrc.', and as 
vice-|)resident of the bankers' Trust Company. After his return 
from the ser\ice in the late war he accepted an a])p(piiit nicnt as 
l)robation officer of tin- Detroit numicipal courts. Then came the 
a])i)oinlnicnt to ,i sc.it in the Cabinet as Secretary of tli.- Navy, - 
the crow nin- success uf his career, aiid a position for wliidi his years 
<.f servi.-c fur his c.nnlrv have a.Imirablv fitted him. 



IIF.NHV ( ANTWKM- W.M>LACK 

Srrrvhtrn nf Aiiriciiiliirr 

If it ha.l not been for the intervent i..n .if Kate and -.,mc .pii.-^ 
witted and resourceful nci.iihbors. th<> pivs.'ut Cnitcd States Seer 
tary of .Vjiricnlture would be some other than Henr\ Cantwt 
Wallace. One Sunday, more than fifty years aj^o, when Mr. Wallac 
was onlv a vear old, his mother started with him across the Mi 
sissippi 'River lo attend th<- father's clinrch service at Davenpor 
I<.wa. Then' had b,.cii a bno-y trail across the i.-c .Inrin- the wintc 

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HENRY ( AXTWHLL WALLACE 



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l.ut ;. thaw Ita.l c.nunriu-ed, an.l tli(.ui;h the ire still appcarcl satV. 
it had Ijfcomo treacherously thin and weak. Mrs. Wallace and her 
hai)y had proceeded hut a short distance when there was an ominous 
crunching- sound beneath them and a moment later they were .strug- 
gling in the icy water. Some neighl)ors who hajipened to reach the 
river .soon after the accident occurred formed a living chain and 
dragged the two safely to shore, little dreaming that they had rescued 
a future Cabinet memberl 

Mr. Wallaceisatyi)icalout-of-d..c.rinaii. ..f n>i.ii>t build aii.l ruddy 
complexion. He comes of a race of fanners. His ancestors were tillers 
of the .soil three hundred years ago on their native heath in Ayrshire, 
Scotland. Later the family moved to Northern Ireland. Mr. Wallace \s 
grandfather left the latter country some time previous to 1830 and 
came to America. The father of the ])resent Secretary of Agriculture 
was a minister who became known to thousands of people in Iowa 
as "Uncle Henry." His first pastorate was at Rock Island. Illinois, 
where Henry Cant well Wallace was liorn, ]\Iay 11, 18(ifi. In addition 
to his pastoral work at Rock Island, "Uncle Henry" handled an 
extra ])ulpit at I)aven])ort, Iowa, across the ^lississi])])! River. 
Finally, threatened with tuberculosis, he was obliged to give up the 
ministry, and devote his attention to the farms which he had ac- 
quired in Adair County. Iowa. The family moved to Winterset. 
where the children could attend good jjublic .schools. During his 
s])are moments, young Henry jjicked up the printing trade in the 
office of a coimtry newspaper, s])ending his summers on the farm. 
When he was nineteen he entered the State Agricultural College at 
Ames, but two years later he gave uj) the course, temporarily, to 
take charge of one-.of his father's farms, the tenant having thrown 
U)) his lease and left the ])lace with no one to handle it. It was five 
years before he went back to finish his course at the Agricultural 
College. In the meantime another student at Ames had given ui) 
the course, not temporarily, but permanently. Miss May IJrod- 
head, a "hec co-ed," as the girls of the Home Economics Depart- 
ment were called, "exclianged the exacting grind of books and classes 
for the free and easy life on a pioneer Iowa farm." During those 
first two years which Mr. W^allace spent at Ames, the two had at- 
tended the various social functions together, and during the summer 
of 1887 much weiglity correspondence was exchanged between them. 
In the fall of that year occurred one of those marriages which, as 
an Ames girl recently said, "are made only in heaven and at a co-ed 
.school." Mrs. Wallace has .shared with her husband his love of 
farm life and has been a valuable jjartner in all of his undertakings. 
Although she is the mother of six children, she has taken an active 
interest in outdoor life. Several prominent guests, including Ex- 
Pre.sidents William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt, have en- 
joyed the hospitality of what many Des Moines people are in the 
habit of speaking of as the Wallaces' "ideal American home." 

Earlv in 1805 the well-known agricultural ])aper Wallarc.i' Farmer 
was started, with "Uncle Henry" at the head and Henry and his 
brother John as assistants. It conunenced as a semi-monthly 



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publication, but was uiadi- a weekly the lollnw iuti year, and ulicn 
■'Unde Henry" died in l!tl(!. it had be<-..Tne un.' uf tlie lea.lint; 
agricultural papers in the United States. It is now edited by 
Henry A. Wallace, the oldest son of the Secret a r\. 

The Wallace family has always taken a proniiniiit pail in all 
work which aimed to promote the farm interests of the Stale. Fui- 
seventeen years Mr. Wallace has been Secretary "f llie Corn Belt 
Meat Pnnlucers' Association, which is said to be the most acti\e 
guardian of livestock feeders" interests in the Middle West. In 
addition to his work as editor of the farm i)aper, Mr. Wallace has 
always kept in active touch with farm life and farm |)roblems. 
During the war when there was a milk shortage at the hospital at 
Camp Dodge, the two Wallace farms north of Des Moines were 
devoted almost entirely to dairying and were able to supply liigli- 
class milk for the base hospital. During the war Henry ('.was at 
the head of the Y. M. C. A. work in Iowa, while his brother .b.hn 1'. 
was the Red Cross leader for the state. 

:Mr. Wallace is admirably fitted for his .hities as Secretary of 
.Vgriculture. Few men po.s.sess a broader or more i)ractical knowledge 
of agricultural problems. Moreover, he understands the heart of 
the .Vmerican farmer and realizes his true importance to the future 
jjrosperitv not onlv of this countrv but of the world, an importance 
which has b.-en expressed in the following poem: - 



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Wlioil all llir s„i]f;s ol' l;,l,or llavr l„vri .smiK 

Fult of tlif rlang <.f steel, tlie llirol. of ste; 
Tlie clatter of liimiiners wliere is filing 

Tlie fiiie-spim britlge across tlie roarinj; st 
Wlien all the chants of labor have been saiil 

Deep-throatetl chants from mighty boson 
Mine is the chant of chants, the Song of l{n 

lam the M^i-ler. fort fi-cl the Worhl' 



The toilers of the factories and mine-. 

Tlie workers of the rivers and the sea>. 
The heavy-muscled hewers of the pines. 

The idlers, 'mid their unearned luxuries — 
At last must look to me — aye, one and all ! 

Without me, armies fail and flags are furlei 
Without nic, King.loms die and Empires full - 

I am the MmsIit. lor I C.-.l Ihc \V,,il,l'. 



icneath the l.hi/.ini: - 
Withstrainiuf; l.arl 

owing the .sec-.l .iiid i 
The corn and uhea 



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.lAMKS .lOIIN DAMS 

Srrniarii ,,f Labor 
Vvum a caivlivr lilr in llu' pict invM|iic vlllai;v ..I' Tn-d.-ar, \Val.'>. 

Pittsl.m-h stoel mill. <.u aiul iipwanl until hr has Hnally ira<li<>.l 
a seat in the Cal.inrt I Such is \\h- caivcr ..f James .lohn Davis, -a 
.•arecremi(.l.l<-<l l.v the "(linnitv ..f laiinr" au<l crowned l)V amhiti.in 
au<i iu.luslrv: 

II,- was only a la. I ol' ci-hi when he airivcl in thi. ,-,.nulry with hi- 

silion nf hi. paivuls, he .,l,laine,| a' Jul, in an iron mill at Sharon. 

Welsh peoph' in'sharou in those .lays, and al th,- mim.'mus siu-in'i. 
.■ntertainments whi.h ih.w hel.l. -.limmy" Davis was a pr.iminent 
Huure. for he poss.-ss.-.l an iinusuallv allra.'liv v..i.v. 

When he was nin.'l.'.ai. -.limmv- w.ail to I'itlsl.ui-h. wh.Mv \u- 
f.n.nd work in ..n.- ..I' the l,i,u sle.'l mills as a puddl.'r. Theiv aiv 
those who still r.anemlMr him as h,' appeare.l ,-a.h morni.m, in hi- 
flannel shirl and his ,|n.-.a- h,,K-naile,l s|„„.s, I,, lak.- his slirrim; tools 
from tlu- -IlisIi-' al Ih.- pn.l.lhim inrna.-.'. n-adv for Ih.' dav's work. 

From I'iltsl,ur-h Mr. Davis weni lo KIuo.mI. lu.liana. wIkmv he 
worked for a time in a tinplate mill. Uul th.' aml.ili..n whi.h had 
made him seek a "jol." al the a-e of .'lev.-n. now .lr.>v,- him ..n until 
he emerged from the ranks of the mill-workers, anil heeame City 
Clerk of Elwood. Not Ion-- afterwards, lie was eleete.l Hec.rder of 
Madison County, liohlinj; that office until li»()(i. Al.out this tim.- 
he l>ecame interested in the Loyal Onler ..f Moos,., ami wh.'ii a 
lod<;e was organized at Crawfords\ille. Indiana, h,' li,Mami' .ictiM-ly 

/.alioii wilh III,' \\\'j}\ i.li'als which this order pcssessed, ,-oiild n,)t 
fail to lie a siii-,-,-ss, he iiii,l,'rl,),)k t,) re,iriianize it. He went to I'itts- 
hurgh in ]!)(»7 and announced that the order was to he rehal.ilitat,',!. 
The rittsl.urgh lodge was instituted the following year. When Mr. 
Davis joined the Loyal Order of :\Ioose there were only two hundred 
forty-se\-en menili,'rs in the entire organization. T'uder his leader- 
.shij)" it now has a m,nili,'rship of more than six luuidred thousand. 

For a nnmlM-r ,,1 v,'.irs Mr. Davis ha.l -Ireamed ,,r estal.lishiug a 
vocational s,|„„,| ulu-iv lh,> wi.h.ws an,l ..rphans ,,f th,- ni,'ml.ers 
,)f the LhIu-' ,-,.u1,I \n- ,ar,Ml f,,r. In t!)l^^ his plans l„.gan to ma- 
terialize. Lan.l was pnnlias,.,! ,,n th,- w.-s| hank u\ Ih,- F,,x River, 
thirty-fiv,- mil,-s w,-s| ,,f Clii,-a-,i, an,l Ih,- litll,- ,-,,inmnnity of 
■•M.ioseharf was ,-,,mm,-n,-,-,l. 'h.-.l.-.v Ih,- pla,-,- r,-s,-ml,K-s a 

thriving littl,- villa-.' with its al tra.-l iv,- ,■ -n-l,- iMiihli.ms an,l its 

num,-r,,iis s,„-ial ami in.hislrial a,-livil i,-s. |„ a,|,lili,Hi I,, Ih,- ,l,.i- 



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mit..rk-s and ivsi.lrii.rs IIk-r. is a spl.Mi.li,! hiol,-.,-!,,,.,! iMiiMin-. als,, 
a lu-iiitiii- plant, an iu.liislrial sliop. and a farm. Tl.c l-iiildinus an- 
all heated hv a (•.■iitral plant. The v..ini- p.M.,,!.. have tii.-ir haschall 
and ti-aek teams, and tii.Mr (.rehestra and hank. .Vt present there 
an- al...nt a thonsand ,,rphans at M.M.scJiart \vh<. are i.cin- -ivn 
a <-hance to make their way in tile world, as a resnlt ol' the dream 
and the determination of the nnm who had few a.lvanla-.'s in his 
own vonth and \v as ohli-ed to start as a lal.orer in a I'ennsvlvania 
iron mill. 

Duriut; the war Mr. Davis visited the Enroi)ean halllelields as 
a chairman of the Moose War Relief Committee. On one of his 
tri|)s across he was hooketl on the Tnseania, which went to the l>ot- 
toni ott' the coast of Ireland, hnt, owiiii:- to a delay in the arrival of 
some of his as.sociates in New York, he took the riiiladelphia, whieii 
sailed a few days later. 

Mr. Davis is well known in I'iltshnrfih as a patron of niusie, and 
it was through his efforts that the Welsh people of that city were 
able to conduct the great international "Eisteddfofl" at Exposition 
Music Hall there a few years ago. 

The |)resent Secretary of Labor still carries a union card and is a 
meml)er of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. 
His work in the Pemisylvania steel mills has gi\en him a sym])athetic 
outlook on the labor situation. Combined with this he has a knowl- 
edge of commercial and industrial ([uestions which he has gained 
through his experiences in the business world, as a banker and as 
the head of the Loyal Order of Moo.se. Neither a radical labor 
unionist nor a representative of capital, he is well qualified to foster 
and promote the welfare of the wage-earners of the United States 
and to lie a mediator in any labor disj)utes which ma,v arise. 



HKRHEKT HOOVER 

Sernian/ nf Cowmrnr 

bike a chapter from '"Monte Cristo," an e]jisode from "King 
.Vrtiiur." or the exploits ol a hero in one of .Vlexander Dumas' novels, 
is the spectacular career of H<-rbert Hoover. Ambition, love of 
adventure, and a liroad human sympaliiy wliicii has ever sought to 
right the wrong and stamp out injuslicc, liave led him from the 
humble Quaker home in Iowa through belaud Stanford I'niversity, 
where he faced the difficult ])roblem of gaining an education and 
earning his way :it the same time; into the mines of Califoiiiia. 
where he labored with shovel and |)ick; then to an abandoned mine 
in Australia and an established rei)utation as a mining engineer; 
into China, where he and his young bride faced the horrors of the 
Hoxer uprising; to London and a jjartnershi]) in an engineering firm 
with eonunissions in nearly every corner of the world; from the 
brilliant setting of European courts to the sinister gloom of darkened 
London, the terrors of the submarine zone, and the tragedy of dev- 
astated Belgium; carrying relief and comfort into the dark corners 

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of the cai-tli wluTovcr siirt'eriiis and iiiisrr.v al.<niii(lc(l, iinlil liis iiaiiK' 
became a household word on two continents! 

Mr. Hoover's earliest recollections are of the peaceful little Quaker 
home, known as "The House of the Maples," near West Branch, 
Iowa, where he was born in August, 1874. He remenibcrs how lie 
and his brother Tad used to crawl uj) into their chairs in the sitting- 
room after breakfast and sit with their legs dangling over the edge 
while their father read from the big black Bible. Then they would 
all kneel on the rag carpet, the boys screwing their elbows into the 
cane seats of the chairs while the mother prayed, after which mother 
would help him on with his coat, Initton it up around his throat, 
and say, "Run and i)lay, Bertie, but do not get thy feet wet." 

This chapter in his life was soon closed. He was left fatherless 
at the age of ten, and for a few years was cared for by different rela- 
tives. When he was only fourteen he went to Portland, and for 
three years earned his living by working in a real estate office, saving 
every penny which he could spare and studying nights that he might 
realize his great ambition of becoming a mining engineer. In the 
fall of 1891 he entered the new Leland Stanford University, as a 
member of the "pioneer class." There are many who still remember 
him as the ciuiet, serious young man who used to stroll across the 
Quadrangle, with his hands deep in his pockets and his head bent 
ilown on his chest, lost in thought. Certainly he had nuich to 
think aI)out, confronted as he was with the task of extra study 
which resulted from entering the University with insufficient prepara- 
tion, and with the jiroblem of earning his way. For a while he waited 
on taV)le, and then became agent for a laundry on commission. He 
was said to l)c a "shark in 'math' and a whale for geology." Four 
years after he t'ulcred the University he graduated as a mining 
engineer cum laude. After leaving college he went into the drifts as 
a miner, worked for two dollars a day shoving cars from a dump, 
graduated to the pick and shovel, and finally secured a position with 
Louis Janin, the foremost mining engineer in the State of California. 
He was ol)liged to start in as a typist, but in a short time was given 
res|)onsible commissions, and was finally recommended for an open- 
ing in Australia. There he successfully tackled a tremendous prob- 
lem involving peculiar labor conditions, and new methods of manage- 
ment in a country where water was found only every fifty or sixty 
miles. In spite of these api)arently insurmountable difficulties he 
tleveloped some highly profitable mines and won considerable repu- 
tation as a mining engineer. 

In 1899 Mr. Hoover started with his young ])ri(le to Cliiiia where 
as chief engineer of the Chinese Ex|)loralion Comiiany he was to 
make a mining-geological survey. He had liarely commenced this 
work when tlie Boxer Rebellion broke out. His chief, the ("liinese 
Minister of Mines, who was hostile to the movement, escajied from 
Peking in disguise, but was discovered in Tientsin, where Mr. Hoover 
succeeded in saving liim from the firing squad. Unable to leave 
Tientsin, Hoover (lc\()t('d his energies to organizing the civic forces 
and co-operating wilh I lie military and civil authorities in putting 

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down the ivlR-Uiuii. His life was in constant ilan-cr. On one occa- 
sion a shell hurst in the house where he and his wile were living. His 
fortune was w'ipcd out at this lime and his position as direclur of 
mines became an empty title. After the lifting of the siege he joined 
the correspimdents and went with them into Peking. Finally he 
went to London where he heeame a ])artner in the engineering firm 
of Berwick, Moreing & Company. It was characteristic of him that 
when a titiancial ])artner <lefaulted with over a million dollars' loss 
to the conii)any he assured all those involved that they would he 
paid every shilling, although the firm could not have heen hekl 
legally rcsponsihle for niueli of it. It took several years to work out 
of the tangle, hut he saw it through. From that time on he rcceixcd 
commissions to organize and direct pro|)erties all over the world, 
from Burma to ?kIexico and .Vnstralia, and from ]{nssia to Central 
antl South .Vmerica. 

When the war hroke out in 1!)14 Mr. Hoo^■er happened to he in 
London, and was called upon hy the .Vmerican Consul-Ceneral lo 
help rescue the thou.sands of hel|)le.ss tourists who were stranded 
there. He .set ahout the task with the energy and ahility which 
characterized all of liis war activities. He next undertook the care 
of the Belgian refugees who fiixked to England after the invasion 
of their country, and then set out for Belgium it.self to relieve the 
stricken sufferers in the devastated area. What he accomplished 
there is almost miraculous. A large numher of .Vmericaiis seem to 
think his war activities were limited to his service as Cnited States 
Food Administrator. In an article in the Wdinan's Home Com- 
panion. Charlotte Kellogg, who was a memher of Mr. Hoover's 
commission ahroad, tells of the amazement of a little Belgian woman 
when she discovered that a group of women with whom she was 
talking in New York did not know of Hoover's intervention on 
hehalf of the lace-makers in Belgium, — how he had Ijrought ahout 
a seemingly imijossihle agreement hetween the Central Powers and 
the Allies, wherehy he was allowed to bring thread to the workers 
and carry out an eciuivalent weight in lace which was sold in .Vllicd 
and neutral countries and the money turned over to the lace com- 
mittee for the workers, — forty-five thousand pale-faced young woukmi 
who were thus kept alive inside the death ring. 

"Yes," the little lace-maker explained, "it was Mr. Hoover who 
brought us the thread. He hroke a door through our prison wall. 
He brought us our thread; he brought our bread; he lirought us 
your .sympathy which was more than bread. Mr. Hoover saved 
us — I thought everybody in America knew." 

It is hardly to be wondered at that when the Sonnne offensive was 
on, and the Germans, infuriated probably by their failure to check 
the attack of the Allied airmen who were hovering above the city 
of Brussels, turned their guns upon the helpless populace, a terror- 
stricken Belgian woman, escaping from the ruins and death on every 
side of her, rushed through the bursting bombs to the house where 
Mrs. Kellogg was living, and gasped: "Mr. Hoover! I've come for 
Mr. Hoover! Oh, tell him to stop them— he will slop them!" It 



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never ...vunv.l I,, Ii.t |Ii;,I even Ii.'mI Mr. Hoover Ke,-n in Urn.M.I^ 
Mt the time he Wonl.l \ui\r I.een |M,uerl.— I,, help. ILmI he nol kepi 
her and her frien<l> ahv .Inrin- Ih.- Iw,, (,.rriM.' v.^.-ir^ which h.i.i 
pa.vM-.i:" Surely h.^ .■onl.i sav them now I 

Mr.-^. Kdl..t;.« tells of the time when the ^anl Io.mI snppiv in 
Unissels led the local Uelgian Committee I., onler Ihe .anleen I.. 
tnrn awav the children who were re.store.l t.. a cerlain wei-hl Ihroiit;!, 
th<' one nourishing meal a dav which Ih.-v had Ke,-n recivinu, and 
tak.- only tho.se emaciate.! litll.' ou.'s wh,, were near -larvalion. 

of starviu- l.ahi.'s and their -riet ..vr Ihe inevital.le lal<' of IIm.m- 
whom theywer.M,rdered I,, tnrn away, sought the help of Mr. lloovr. 
who was then in the city. They hrout^ht to him the hollow-<liesled 
little ones with their yreat i)atlietic eyes which nazed at him in nnil.' 
appeal. For a while he h)oked on 'silently, l')itiuii his lip. a> Ihe 
tears came to his eves, and then he went out and accomplished Ihe 
impossihl,.' The children who had I.e.Mi •' rest,, red to normal" wen- 
kepi and the new ones came! 

.\n.l so we find him dnrim; the nexl I'cu v,-ars carrviu- or semlin- 

relN't I., Ihe sulleriu- wh.M-cver tlu- •■all nuuhl c.> .' to Ma.-edonia 

and the Near East, to Finland an.l ( V,e,ho-Slov,akia, I.. .Vuslria an,l 
Huuiiary, — eontinuiuj;' his work afN'r Ihe aiiiiislice was signed, 
ort;anizin«- the American Eelicf ('omnussi,,n and slartin- Ihe ma- 
chin.'ry that sent .irmies ,,f experts inio I lies,, various countries to 
make a surxcv ot Ihe needs, set the railroads |o runniu«. and jiivini; 
n.'w sailin- orders I,, Heels of lo,„hships. ••The human dynamo," 
he is , ailed l,y Ihos,- « ho hav seen him directino- the,s<- num.'rous 
operations. || is Ihis snp.^rh .MH-r-v .■omiiined with his remarkal.l.' 
c.xe.nlivc al.ililv ,ind his intense k.vc of .Vmerica and all sl„. stands 
lor that will nndsc this man a pot.Mit lact,.r in Ihe .a.-tivities .,f the 
n.-w {■.al.inet. 

iHHKirr W()i{K 

■■\)n [Ur liest vou can, the thin- thai li.-s n.'aresl y,,u, an.l 
fimsh il," is the a.lvi.-e which Ilul.ert Work, wh.. su.-.-eed.-.l Will II. 
Hays -IS I'.,stmaster-(;eneral, often liear.l fn.m his father, wh.. was 
..n.' .)f 111. IS., unusual farmers wh.. worked with his liaiuls yet used 
his I, rains in •■y.^ry .l.'tail of farm w<.rk. When the hoy" •>«"iiiie 
impali.'iil, his falli.a-. a man of yerv few wor.ls. w.ml.l .-all auain to 
nnn.l his l.^xl |.,r su.-.vss, and add:— 

••It ni.ai will simply .h. as he.st th.'v .•an, Ih.' j..l. l.<>f..r.. them, ami 
hnish il, wh..th.M- Ih.'V lik.. it or n..l, the future will take .-are ..f 

its.-lf." 

'I'his curt stiitement from his farmer father explains li..w I'.isl- 
master-General Work has "one on step by stej) from the small lliimis 
on the farm to a seat in the Cabinet ..f the Nation. lie was l..,rn on 
his lather's farm near Mari..n i'vuirv. ■'.•nnsvlvania, .Inlv :!, lS(i(l. 
an.l was ...In.al.Ml at tli.' In.liana ( F.^misyl vania'l Stal.^ N..rinal S.^li.,,,!. 

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at the Iniversity <.f Mi<lii-an. an.l at llu- Inivorsity of r.'iinsylvaina, 
uraduating in iiiediciiie at the Iniversity of Pennsylvania in 1,SS.>. 
He Itegan the jjractiee of medieine at Fort Morfjan, Colorado, in 
1887, and six years later moved to Piiehlo, where he was a jjraetisinii 
physician for twenty-five years. 

In the medical jM-ofession, which has been his life-work, lu' ha^ 
received the highest honors, being the youngest man ever elected 
president of the Colorado State Medical Society. He served as a 
member of the Colorado State Board of Medical Examiners, organized 
and for ten years was a member of the Colorado State Board of 
Health, and for four years was its president. In 191"2 he was elected 
|)resident of the American Medico-Psychologica! Society an<l is now 
the i)resident of tlie .\merican Medical As.sociation. 

When the United States entered the late war he retired from the 
active practice of medicine and volunteered in the ]\Iedical Corjis 
of the Army. Commissioned Major by General Gorgas, he was 
assigned to the staff of Provost-Marshal General Crowder. hcconiing 
the liaison medical officer between the two departments, with super- 
vision of the medical features of the draft. Advancement was rapi<i l||t^ 
to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and then to Colonel in llic Medical i^fp^i 
Corps. He is now in the Officers Reserve Corps of the Arni\-. holding 1"^^] 
the rank of Colonel. All his sons, as well as he, were in uniform 
when the armistice was signed, and all are members of the American 
Legion. 

Colonel Work is a lifelong Reiiublican, and lias for six years served 
as Republican National Committeeman. He was a delegale-at- 
large from his State to the Republican National Convcniion which lyJj^ 

nominated Taft in 1!)()8, and was chairman of the Republican State [ l'"'^ 

Conmiittee of Colora(h) in 1910. \^^ 

No small part of his unusual success in the medical i)rofession '^f^ 

and in politics he attributes to the early training he received on his |^i 

father's farm. He was a veritable farmer lioy, and many of his 
Colorado friends are reminding him of incidents of his early days 
on the farm down in Pennsylvania. 

.Vmong his most cherished letters is one from Eden, Wyoming, 
March ••2(), 19^23, which reads as follows:— 

'■])r. Hi BERT Work, 

Postmaster-General, 

Washington, D.C. 

Dear Old Friend of Long Ago: 

I want to congratulate you on your appointment as a 
Cabinet Member. I often think of the last time I saw you 
in Penna. was in your Father's back field splitting rails, so Hi^ 

here is hoping that you keep on going up till you get where 5^^j 

the other great rail'splitter got to. ' ^"'^ 

With best wishes for vour success I will do what I can to 
help you. 

Banks. W. ]?ra»y 

PostiiKistrr til Eden. Sireeliraler Connlii, U'l/oining." 
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I I Mr. Hra.ly i. tlir -,1, ..f tlio hitr CiiUhmmhi I5ra.lv. wIh.m- fanu 

"-'^ joincl lliat of Dr. \V..rk\ fatlicr nrar Marion ( rnt.T, ['.■nn-vlvaiiia. 

'f- /^ Mr. Itraily l.'ft l^■n^^vlvania nearly lurly yrar> a.;,.. \\r i> n.,\v a 

q: ' nicn-liaul at K.lcn. S\n(m.|x\ at.'r Connlv. \Vv in-, an.l Hi,- small 

I '1.- I.U.I -,,IH.-c. pavin- SD!) |„.r var. i. luralcl in lln- M.Hv. 

lii>|r| C.h.ncl Work wa. niarri..! to l.anra M. .Vrl,nrkl,> ,,f Ma.lis„n. 

=J\\ In.liana. in 1SS7. Tlirrr arr t\v,, .,,n. and a <lau-lit.'r. OnrM.n. 

^^ Dr. I*hili|. W,,rk. ulio was -ra.luatcd from tlir Iniversity of I'.Minsvi- 

^p vania in 1!)1:!. is n.,w in <liar-o of the Woodcrutt Hospital, for mental 

^1 and nervous .liseases. at I'nel.lo. (\,l,,ra<lo. uhi.'h was estal.lished 

gb hy his father. 

(^n :\[rs. .V. W. Hisse||.tli,'dan-hter. lives in Chica-o. Illinois. |{ol,ert. 

^ I the yonnuest son. has r.ventlv -radnated from the Tniversitv of 

Colorad.. as a eonstrnelion ••nuineer. an,l h<- will l,e asso.aale.l with 
tl... Calitornia and Nevada l'<.wer an.l la-ht Companv with head- 
^[1 .piartersat S.an Kr;,neis,-o. ( 'alifornia. 

'BH Dr. Work's p,,liev as I'osI mast<.r-( i.'iieral. as express,.d in .,ne of 

g^M th,- lirsl a.ldresses made I.elore the Xati.m.al Wellar.. C.nn.-il. sh<,ws 

■^^ th.' kin.lliness .,f his nature as well as tli.> purpose W has in th.> man- 

a-em.'ul of the Post-Otfiee Department. 

- ,1| ■■ -Welfare," " .said he, "to turn it an.nn.l a.uain. I suppose is in- 

I ^ I t.nd.'.l xpres.s the \w\w that you may 'fare well." I hope that you 

^'q iu.ii in this .irganizatiou, and tlio.se you re])reseut, may tare well in 

'^'-^ th.' |).>slal service, and it is my dis])ositiou and it will he my effort 

to .lo .verything I can to see that th.' p..stal empl.iyees shall fare 
w.'ll as we i^.i along- together. 

■'.V moruiug paper attempted a little jok.' .m m> name. It con- 
tained an article in which it .said that the "hnmam/ini;" of the p.)st- 
office had been turned to "workizing" the post-.ilti.-.'. .Vpparentlx 
they thought, as a jileasantry, that it was rather catchy. It is Tiot a 
joke." "Humanizing" and "workizing" are the ahility to work and 
the op|)ortunity to work, — the verv fmulameutals of existence. 
Th.Mv .-an he no .-ilizenrv nsina thV w.ir.l in its hiuhest sense— 
cx.-.-pt f<,r Ih.ise wh.. w.irk. 

JOHN wl\c;atk wkkks 

Secret a ri/ of War 

He is a liig man, pliysically as well as m.Mil.illy. He m.'asnr.'s six 
feet, .me inch in height, weighs over two hnn.hv.l an.l fifty ponn.ls. 
and has a phy.sical strength and vigor which are t.) he envied. It is 
said that when he was a cadet at the Annap.)lis Naval Academy he 
could i)ut up a ll'-2-pound dumhhcll with his right hand, then kneel 
on one leg and lift an 87-pound dumhhell with his left hand and slowly 
put it over his head. He was also ahle to heave into the air 1!)!) 
pounds, lower it to his shoulders, and then raise it again, arm high. 
His most spectacular feat, however, and one which attracteil con- 
siderable attention in Washington, was when, as chairman of the 
House Committee on Post-offices and Post R.ia.ls in the Sixty-first 
Congress he brought in a bill invohing a i.d appr.i|)riati.)ns of 

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t\V(j liuiidml million dollars and defended it ajiainst alteration in 
the House. It is recorded that this bill received the unusual conii)li- 
ment of passage by the Senate without amendment. 

Mr. Weeks was born on a farm in Lancaster, New Hampshire. 
April 11, 1860. Among his early recollections is the memory of 
maple-sugar time when he used to help carry sa]) for the boiling and 
"sugaring off." When he was only sixteen he became a teacher in 
the district school. One year later there was an opening at Annap- 
olis for a New Hampshire student and he was admitted, graduating 
in 1881. For two years he was midshipman on the U.S.S. Richmond, 
and was then mustered out of the service, for in those days there 
were not enough ships to provide commissions for all of the Academ\- 
graduates. Only ten in Mr. Weeks's class of se\-enty recei\ed com- 
missions. He then went to Florida, picked up surveying, and for 
several years held the ofEce of land commissioner of the Florida 
Southern Railway. He finally went to Boston where he became a 
partner in the firm now known as Hornblower & Weeks, with branches 
in nearly every large citj' in the country. He also served as Vice- 
President of the First National Bank of Boston. For six years Mr. 
Weeks served as connnander in the Massachusetts Naval Brigade 
with the rank of Captain, and during the Sj)anisli-Anierican AVar, 
as Lieutenant-Commander, he had charge of an auxiliary emergency 
fleet for the protection of the Massachusetts coast. 

Mr. Weeks"s political career began in 1!)()(> when he served as 
Alderman of Newton, which is a part of Metropolitan lloston. Three 
years later he became Mayor of Newton. His ri-c was ra|)id. In 
190.3 he served as chairman of the Republican Convention, and in 
1913, after four terms of service in the lower house of Congress, he 
became United States Senator from ^lassachusetts. He had a 
notable career as a Congressman, serving on many imjjortant com- 
mittees, including Banking and Currency, Expenditures in the State 
Department, Committee on Agriculture, and the Conference Com- 
mittee in connection with the Aldrich-Vreeland currency bill. He 
also framed and had charge of the forestr\- bill and introduced the 
bill for the protection of migratory and insectivorous birds. 

Mr. Weeks is a prominent club man, having membershij) in the 
University, Middlesex, Brae Burn Country, Newton, Reijublican, 
and Metrojiolitan clubs, as well as the Chevy Chase and the Army 
and Navy clubs at Washington. His chief hobbies are said to be 
farms and finance. The beautiful country house on the summit of 
Mount Prospect at Lancaster, New Hampshire, where he and his 
wife and two children have spent many summers, is his special 
pride. Of actual diversions he .seems to have few, if any. He tells 
of a man who went all the way to Lancaster one summer to find out 
about his "lighter side." "He dug around for a long time," said 
Mr. Weeks, "and discovered that I arose early and went to bed 
early, and that as a boy I walked many miles to school, just like 
every country boy, and that eventually I taught school, but I guess 
that was about all he could find. I felt sorrv for him, but I couldn't 
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1^1 I II is sai.l ni liini tlinl -liis ,-,,nvi,-t iuns, sin.vivly ..iitcrhniUMl ami 

'p!^1-; .■,,uraK.'.,usly ,.x|,n.>s...l. a,v n..t R-a.'tionary, l,ut truly pn.mvssivo. 

^ ami his stati'Miiaiisliip is all the Ijroader anil more iu,-s])iring hocause 

^ practical and posscxsiu- the dominant ciuality of common sense." 

I - Mr. Weeks is a hemic lo\ cr and the type of man to whom private 

J^ life holds great atlradioii. Iiut he has entered upon a public career, 

-^ and, true to his instincts and his training as an Anna])olis man, he 

^"S; will " never (Ics.Tl Ih.^ ship, n..r haul down the fla- under f^re." 

,^3 ALBERT lUCOX FALL 

^1 I Scrrctari/ of ihr Interior 

%^-^ He C..U1CS Irom the land ,.i' iin.a.l '• mesas" and majestic niounlain 

ranges, where the innncnse stretches of country seem actually to 
impart a lircadth of mental vision. Among his (|tialiHcatious lor lh<' 
position of Sccrclarv of the Interior is his knowledge of \;u'ious 
affairs within the country,— a knowledge which may l.e <les,-riKed as 

_^ l.oth keen and far-reaching. It has licen sai.l that:— 

'^ ■■ He knows how to operate a n'aper. 

" "He knows how to apply a hickory rod lo an i>l>stinatc schoolhoy, 

"He knows how to ro])e a steer. 
- "He knows how to ad.lress a jurv. 

••Hekn,,wsh(,« I,, run a drill in' a mine. 

"H.> knows how l,,c,>mmand s,,l,liers." 

MorcoNcr he has leai'iied llicse Ihings from actual experience. 

.Mli.'rl Bacon Fall was l„„n al Frankfort, Kentucky, in 18()1, hut 
lie wi'iil \\'cs| at an caiK' a^i'. making his home for a time in Texas 
an.l later in New .Mexi.o. H.' was .■ducated in the country schools 
an.l has also laughl Ihcm. During this jwriod he utilize.l his spare 
moments in reading law, and in 1M8!) he conuuenced his |)ractice as 
a lawyer, s])ecializing later in Mexican law. He has worked as 
farmer, ranchman, and miner in the great Southwest. During the 
Sl)anish-American War he served as cajdain of Company H, First 
'J'erritorial ^'olunteer Infantry. 

Mr. Fall has served as Associate Jiislice of the Su|)reme Court of 
New Mexico, has twice been Attorney-General of the State, and was 
also a member of the State's constitutional convention. He served 
several time.s as a member of the New ^Mexico Legislature, and in 
1!)1'2 was sent to the United States Senate. He was re-elected in 
li)l.S for the term ending 191f) and was again re-elected in November. 
1!)1K, for the l.^nn endinu 1!)'2.). His victorv in the last election was 
sachlcn.'d l,v the loss of a s.,u and a .hlught.-r, l.olh vi.-tims of 
inHucn/.a. 

Near Three Rivers, New Mexico, is the large ranch where Mr. Fall 
has been engaged in farming and stock-raising. He is able to speak 
and write the Spanish language Huentlv and has an intimate knowl- 
edge of the Mexi<-an people an.l Ihal mysterions lan.l ,.f "manana." 

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